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Title: School records
Post by: Mocummings on Friday 30 October 20 13:38 GMT (UK)

I’m looking at school records for Plymouth and the reason for leaving school in 1914 at the age of 12 is given as DTC, with (comms) after some of the entries.
Does anyone know what these initials mean please.

Title: Re: School records
Post by: stanmapstone on Friday 30 October 20 14:27 GMT (UK)

Under the Factory and Workshop Act  1901 Act no child could be employed under fourteen years of age without a certificate of proficiency in reading, writing and arithmetic. A child thirteen years of age may be employed full time if he/she had a certificate of proficiency, or of "previous due attendance at a certified efficient school. DTC could mean Due Attendance Certificate. Although PDAC is usually used for Previous Due Attendance Certificate.

Stan

Title: Re: School records
Post by: Mocummings on Friday 30 October 20 14:43 GMT (UK)

Thank you, that makes sense to me.